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Re: who influence you?

i was having one of those reflective moments last night, and gave some consideration to those that have had an influence on me and my beekeeping.

below are those that i would like to thank for the role they are playing in that regard. the list is in alphabetical order, and i equally appreciative to all.

oops, submitted before proofed. title should read 'who has influenced you', can you fix it barry?

here is the list:

beesource members - for great roundtable discussion and lot's of fun
michael bush - for showing me it is possible to be successful practicing natural husbandry
randy oliver - for satisfying my left brain need to understand the science of the bee
michael palmer - for showing me the way to sustaining my apiary
walt wright - for helping me to understand the season by season dynamics of the colony

many many thanks to all!

Last edited by squarepeg; 11-12-2012 at 01:17 PM.
Reason: added 'has'

journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives

Re: who influence you?

Do you mean who influences you now or who has influenced you?

When I started, I was influenced by Dee Lusby primarily. Later on as Michael Bush's body of work grew, he became more influential as well. I quit following Dee after a while, email lists are too much of a pain.

Nowadays, the most influence I get is from people telling me I can't do what I'm doing. They influence me to keep doing it and to keep doing an extreme form of it.

Re: who influence you?

In that case, it was mostly Dee Lusby. I patterned almost my entire method after hers when I started. I still retain many aspects of it. Lately Michael Bush has influenced me to use plastic frames and move to mediums.

Re: who influence you?

When I started 10 years ago:
Books and local beekeepers.
My dad and grandpa. Neither were beekeepers but they helped me think critically about the varying advice I'd get from multiple sources.

A year or two ago when I got my second wind:
Being much more proficient at web searching I'd have a topic or question and read what ever my search engine could find, weighing in different opinions and sources.

I also kept a top bar hive. Not because I thought it was "better" but to get influence from a colony kept with less "rules" (frames and foundation).

Re: who influence you?

Guy Darry Wood
Peter Lew LeCompte
Jim Tew
Eva Crane
Roger Morse
Richard Taylor
Raymond Churchill
Elwood "Buster" Smith
Jon E.MacDonald
Michael Palmer
The Myers of Granville,NY
Countless Beekeepers across NY from the Canadian Border and the Champlain Valley to Long Island to Chautaqua County to Niagara Falls and the St. Lawrence Valley.
Chuck and Karen Kutik
Numerous people on beesource who have given me a different way of looking at some of the things I do w/ bees.
Herb and Carlene MacIntyre
Steve Fisher
Barry Birkey
and other people I have met thru beesource like Brian aka Acebird.

The trouble w/ these lists is someone always gets left off and one runs the risk of hurting someone's feelings. I'll wake up at 2:00AM w/ a name I should have remembered to recall.

Re: who influence you?

I guess I'm telling my age here, I had the opportunity to meet Walter T Kelley when I was a teenager visiting his company to buy stuff. He was over 90 then, so there was no real talk of beekeeping, but his genuine thankfulness to have spent his life in beekeeping was overwhelming.
At the time, I felt like I had met the god of bees. Our 15 minute conversation has stuck with me ever since. We should all be so lucky to feel our life's work was of such personal and public value.

Re: who influence you?

Mr. Kelley was a special man. I recall him telling a friend of mine to get out of his truck because he had to go to the Hospital for his daily visit w/ his wife and my friend wouldn't stop asking him questions. He was an impressive guy.

Re: who influence you?

Michael,

Richard Taylor's book "The Joys of Beekeeping" taught me not only about bees and beekeeping but how to look at life a little differently than I did before. I met him once at a convention and knew immediately that he was truly a unique character in the history of beekeeping. John